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Rhodesian Alouette III’s Rolling Start Take Off

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A Portuguese Air Force F-84 Thunderjet being loaded with ordnance in the 1960s, at Luanda Air Base.

Operation Prawn: Selous Scouts – Top Secret War in the group Rhodesian Bush War

 

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Casspir MPV armed with a Hispano-Suiza HS 820 20mm automatic cannon and coaxially mounted L3. Another L3 is mounted iri ball-joint mount attached to the commander’s front window, providing the Casspir with impressive firepower.

Incredible pic of a SAAF #Canberra starting up

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SAAF #Cheetah D climbing out

This rather surreal and dark image of a enemy Angolan #Hind Helicopter operated by FAPLA taking off in Angola during the Border War in the late 1980’s.

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4 Recce Operator launching from sub

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South African #Recce operators on the Quito river at a place called Mapupa, trying to recover an Angolan PT-76 during Operation Protea in 1981. They eventually destroyed it

Victorino and Koos Stadler from 5 Recce Regiment

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SADF Olifant tanks lined up before the start of Operation Hooper in 1988

Angolan SA-13 Strela-10 system in the bush

FAPLA troops hitching a ride on a soviet-built BRDM

SADF clearing SWAPO or FAPLA bunkers in the Border War circa 1980’s

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Cuban soldiers jumping from an Mi-8 helicopter landing in Angola, 1982.

Soviet or Cuban Pilot photographed alongside an Angolan Air Force #MiG-21bis fighter jet, mid-1980s.

FAPLA soldier with SAM installation 1980s

Impala MkII firing a salvo of rockets

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FAP-DAA Angolan Mig-23

SADF Troop with a R4

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List of Military assets and bases during the conflicts in Angola, Rhodesia and Mozambique

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